Officially, the Netherlands is a safer country to live in than the United States. Its gun homicide rate is about 4 percent that of the United States, and its official murder rate is less than one-fourth that of the United States.

A 69-year-old Dutch man is borrowing a page from the transgender debate and asking the courts to change his birth certificate to reflect the age he “feels” – specifically, as a man who was born in 1969 and not 1949.